The Globe Theatre, the original in the 1600s, had a capacity crowd of three thousand. There were only two hundred thousand people in London at the time so it would take just seventy-five performances before everyone in the city had seen one of Shakepeare's newest.
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Not that exciting really. More impressed if it had been somethin like 10 performances.
Bearing in mind that sometimes there would be two performances a day. In a world without tv or mass publishing that makes this the most popular arts activity with the capacity for everyone to see something within a couple of months. It would take decades for everyone in London to see a West End how in London now.
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